Will The Post-Bernie Left Finally Come Out Against War?

Santa Rosa, CA
June 12, 2016

by Rich Scheck

A major event is planned for this coming weekend in Chicago where leading leftists
will gather to strategize following the failure of Bernie Sanders to become the Democratic
Party’s nominee for President. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nnu-all-star-lineup-gathers-for-chicago-peoples-summit-june-17-19-300282820.html

It is one of several major developments designed to build on the enormous momentum and success of the Sanders campaign. http://inthesetimes.com/features/political-revolution-after-bernie-sanders.html

Fascinating to this observer is the failure of the Left to address the institutionalization of a
permanent war economy that supports America’s role as world policeman for the Globalists.

As Robert Parry indicates in his essay, the Democrats are now the aggressive war party:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44843.htm

With Hawk Hillary as their nominee, fully backed by the Kagan clan and the Neocons, it is Donald Trump who sounds (at least some of the time) like the less pro-war candidate who is willing to constrain NATO and criticize Bill Kristol:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44848.htm

With Obama seemingly intent on starting a war with Russia and/or China, Sanders and his
supporters on the Left have remained strangely silent regarding this most perilous development.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44852.htm

Has public opinion been so manipulated that those who follow in the footsteps of Eugene Debs, Martin Luther King, George McGovern and other anti-war liberals forgotten their roots or been somehow brain-washed into backing perpetual war for perpetual peace?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44850.htm

Sanders went after Hillary for her Wall Street ties and funding by the banksters but rarely if ever mentioned the strong connection between them and our endless wars based on lies.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/06/11/hitler-was-financed-by-the-federal-reserve-and-the-bank-of-england/

That struck some of us as passing strange, especially to the extent that a powerful anti-war
message might have gone a long way towards enticing those millions of disaffected voters
on the right who share an equal disdain with their working class brothers on the left for more wars………..and particularly ones started by false flag attacks.

Had Sanders been more assertive on this key issue, perhaps Mr. Trump might not have done so well with Independents who appreciated him attacking George Bush for Iraq and 9/11!

It will remain for others to figure out Sanders timidity on these issues and his limited focus
against Mrs. Clinton to social justice and fairness. Giving her a pass on the e-mail scandal
that went to the heart of her war-making in Libya, Iraq and elsewhere; her criminal scheme to use the State Department to support and profit from the Clinton Foundation; and her systematic disregard for the truth in all areas of her public life was beyond careless on his part.

The Left must find a way to move past these mistakes when it meets to plan for the post-Sanders era. I am ecstatic to see the name of Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard on the roster of speakers who will address the Chicago gathering.

Gabbard is one of the few Democrats who has shown the courage to come out against their
own party’s leader and challenge a sitting President in public regarding his war-making ways: https://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=24757

So I and many others will be watching in the days and weeks ahead to see if those who are
about to inherit the mantle of leadership from their defeated hero can build on his successes and expand their potential base to create a true political revolution in 21st Century America.

That revolution has to be one that will achieve economic justice for all based on true wealth creation rather than one based on crony capitalism and the theft of other nation’s resources through wars of aggression. https://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=32281

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